Testing nursery plant quality of Canary Island pine seedlings grown under different cultivation methods

Phyton - Annales Rei Botanicae

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 231-244

  Luis, V C ^a   Peters, J ^a   Gonzalez Rodriguez A M ^a   Jimenez M S ^a   Morales, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbohydrates; Morphological attributes; Nutrients; OSU test; Pinus canariensis; RGP test; Seedling quality

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROPHYTA; PINUS CANARIENSIS;

EID: 12844269448     PISSN: 00792047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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